Beautifully Broken | Issue #12

ART & IDEAS TO REPAIR YOUR BEAUTIFUL WORLD

CONTENTS

Truth, Justice, Lies & the Importance of Storytelling to Social Cohesion (with Joseph Campbell)
BROKEN WORLD

Kwatz! Wake up! Life's Short! (Sudden Enlightenment with D.T. Suzuki)
PRACTICAL ENLIGHTENMENT

Perceiving The Divine Through Poetic Imagination (with Umberto Eco's The Name Of The Rose)
FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND

Into The Labyrinth Part 7: Nothing's Gonna Stop Us From Killing Each Other Now! (with Starship)
FICTION

Light City, Dark City (in Nice & Grasse)
REPORTAGE HAIKU

EDITORIAL

Welcome to Beautifully Broken Issue 12. Apologies for the late Sunday delivery, I've got two teenagers, one studying for his French baccalaureate and another undertaking his brevet, the French middle school exams and they've needed some assistance with their revision.

In our Broken World segment we explore the importance of storytelling to social cohesion.

In Practical Enlightenment I've shared a foreword I wrote to D.T. Suzuki's book The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk with some ideas for instant zen!

In the latest instalment in the fictional modern haibun Into The Labyrinth, our protagonist finds himself trapped in a generational tribal war.

For Footprints In The Sand (which features inspirational art or writing by a deceased artist or writer) I've chosen a passage on how we perceive the divine from Umberto Eco's medieval monastic detective story The Name Of The Rose and this week's Reportage Haiku takes us to the French cities of Nice and Grasse to poetically contrast light and dark cities.

I post the sections separately to the Beautifully Broken substack as soon as they’re done (mostly Friday, Saturday) and before I compile each article to form the weekly edition for email subscribers so feel free to check in at morganbuchanan.substack.com if you want early access (subscriber only articles will still only be available to subscribers).

Have a great weekend,

Morgan

ps: Make sure to scroll all the way to the end to see the bonus photo essay of the Festival of Two Wheels in Grasse, France.